# What is the best way to make a messaging app?
**URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/what-is-the-best-way-to-make-a-messaging-app/2918992
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X
**Tags:** help
**Created:** [March 28, 2024, 9:18pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/what-is-the-best-way-to-make-a-messaging-app/2918992 "2024-03-28T21:18:38Z")
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### Author:  [@thedarkwaterbuntafv](https://community.thunkable.com/u/thedarkwaterbuntafv)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2024, 9:18pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/what-is-the-best-way-to-make-a-messaging-app/2918992/1 "2024-03-28T21:18:38Z")
Is the best way to have a cloud variable for each message, user, or all in one? Or is there another way that I’m not thinking of?
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### Author:  [@nascentaa0obfo](https://community.thunkable.com/u/nascentaa0obfo)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2024, 1:19am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/what-is-the-best-way-to-make-a-messaging-app/2918992/2 "2024-03-29T01:19:15Z")
Hi @thedarkwaterbuntafv. Nice too see your back on Thunkable Forum.
To answer your question, the best way for creating a messaging app would be using an external website and connecting it using an API or using a texting API as I don’t believe its possible to send messages through thunkable only to multiple users. Now you can use thunkable to send a message to **ONLY ONE** user at a time.
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### Author:  [@thedarkwaterbuntafv](https://community.thunkable.com/u/thedarkwaterbuntafv)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2024, 1:53am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/what-is-the-best-way-to-make-a-messaging-app/2918992/3 "2024-03-29T01:53:22Z")
Is there any specific one I should use? I only saw ones used for promotions when I looked it up
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### Author:  [@nascentaa0obfo](https://community.thunkable.com/u/nascentaa0obfo)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2024, 2:01am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/what-is-the-best-way-to-make-a-messaging-app/2918992/4 "2024-03-29T02:01:54Z")
Yes, so you might want to check out this topic here for more details on what do and what websites to use.
> [@Sending Text Notification to Multiple People](https://community.thunkable.com/t/sending-text-notification-to-multiple-people/2751916/13):
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> Could you please post the code for that project here? Also I was wondering on how to insert Twilio into my project. Could you please help with that?
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### Author:  [@thedarkwaterbuntafv](https://community.thunkable.com/u/thedarkwaterbuntafv)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2024, 2:24am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/what-is-the-best-way-to-make-a-messaging-app/2918992/5 "2024-03-29T02:24:36Z")
I’m looking at Twilio right now and I don’t see anything about messages between users, just messages between the app and users
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### Author:  [@nascentaa0obfo](https://community.thunkable.com/u/nascentaa0obfo)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2024, 2:27am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/what-is-the-best-way-to-make-a-messaging-app/2918992/6 "2024-03-29T02:27:57Z")
Yes, so twilio acts as a “number” from which you can text the people.
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### Author:  [@thedarkwaterbuntafv](https://community.thunkable.com/u/thedarkwaterbuntafv)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2024, 2:40am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/what-is-the-best-way-to-make-a-messaging-app/2918992/7 "2024-03-29T02:40:24Z")
Ok, I was talking about a user to user or group of user messaging, should I just use cloud variables or a spreadsheet for that?
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### Author:  [@nascentaa0obfo](https://community.thunkable.com/u/nascentaa0obfo)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2024, 4:03pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/what-is-the-best-way-to-make-a-messaging-app/2918992/8 "2024-03-29T16:03:40Z")
Is the number of users ever going to increase or decrease and if it is are you going to increase it from the app?
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.thunkable.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2024, 4:04pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/what-is-the-best-way-to-make-a-messaging-app/2918992/9 "2024-06-27T16:04:03Z")
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